Novel 2 Fireworks

Fireworks is a 104804-word full-length novel, published here over 60 colourful pages.

Signed and numbered by the author/artist.

The work is staple bound and A4 sized (210/297mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches) with card covers depicting the "Novel Artworks" that evolved from this adventure into literature.

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Novel Artworks

The 60 individual pages were created from the original collages that make up the "Novel Artworks" series of triptych pieces. This means the text runs over and in between the different motifs. In this case, stars. To fit the words in, the text is arranged into 3 columns per page and all indentation for paragraphs etc., are removed. Running underneath and in between the main text is a 9190-word abridged version.

This is a unique but accessible way to consume text. As with the other two novels, the  the motifs were hand-cut from printed coloured papers and arranged by Steve during several months of painstaking application (!).

History

Fireworks was begun by Steve in 2001. Various drafts have been completed over the period, leading to this, the 2018 version.

Blurb

Dennis is being exploded, but he doesn't know it yet. He hasn't got much time. A fraction of a fraction of a second, in fact. Can he somehow make sense of his life? From being a boy evacuated from pre-war Nazi Germany to being a philosophy lecturer on the cusp of an incredible world-altering discovery...

Themes

"Novel Artworks" are largely about challenging the notion of linear time. Showing everything "all at once". In an eternal singular moment. All three of Steve's novels explore this idea in their own way. In Fireworks, every takes place from the moment a bomb is detonated until the force of the detonation takes effect.